Chaffles!
When I was sorting
through and downsizing the accumulation of Stuff I had in my storage, I got rid
of my waffle iron / griddle. I liked it
for making bacon, but doing Keto I was no longer making pancakes or waffles and
it was taking up space. Plus the
non-stick coating on the griddle side of the plates was beginning to peel and
I'd already been told that replacing the plates would cost as much as replacing
the entire appliance.
TWO DAYS LATER I
started reading Facebook posts about these mysterious things called
Chaffles. What's a chaffle? It's a waffle-shaped Keto-friendly concoction
made with egg and cheese, maybe a little butter, baking powder, almond or
coconut flour… People were calling it a
"game changer" and I wanted to try it. But my waffle maker was sitting on the shelf
of a Goodwill somewhere.
I went on with my
life, working, wishing for easy packable Keto lunches. I like roast beef on provolone slices instead
of bread, but variety is nice…
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Then I stopped in at
a Goodwill and there was a waffle iron / griddle, same kind I'd had, but in
much better condition. As in barely
used. As in under $5. As in, MINE, no hesitation.
So I've been making
Chaffles. I've made plain egg and cheese
chaffles. I've made savory chaffles with
the same yummy seasoning I used in the mug bread I posted about last spring. I've made lemon-ginger chaffles. My favorite recipe is these cream cheese based
chaffles. I'm posting the link to the
recipe here, instead of writing it out, because it's not my recipe and I didn't change a thing. (OK, yes I did. I use a squirt of stevia extract instead of the powdered stevia.) Go enjoy Jennifer's site and come back here.
When I make them, I
do it in a Magic Bullet blender. I put
everything but the cream cheese in and blend, then add the cream cheese. Seems to work better for me that way.
I will have to be doubling her recipe, though, for my waffle iron, which makes four at a time and the recipe seems to be right for six of that size.
I've been enjoying chaffles hot with butter, chaffles with berries and whipped cream, and most of all, Tuna Sandwiches!!!
My next batch will
be garlic-bread chaffles. I'll let you
know how that turns out.
